Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period, Essays in Honour of W.j. Boot

Name: Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period, Essays in Honour of W.j. Boot
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ISBN: 9789004216730

ISBN-10: 9004216731

ISBN-13: 9789004216730

Edition: 2012

Authors: Anna Anna Beerens, Mark Teeuwen

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Book details

List price: $146.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


"Met vriendschappelijke groet"



Introduction: Aspects of intellectual life in Edo Japan



Intellectual Networks


Entertainment and education: An antiquarian society in Edo, 1824-25



The prince who collected scholars: The network of Myoho-in no miya Shinnin Hoshinno (1768-1805)



Legitimising Tokugawa Rule


"Not perfectly good": Some Edo responses to Confucius's characterization of Kings Wen and Wu



Confucianism versus feudalism: The Shoheizaka academy and late Tokugawa reform



Minding the gaps: An early Edo history of Sino-Japanese poetry



The Way of Heaven in 1816: Ideology or rhetoric?



The history and miraculous efficacy of the Black Amida: Its significance for Zojoji and its role in the diffusion of Tokugawa myths



Insincere blessings? Court-Bakufu relations and the creation of engi scrolls in honour of Tokugawa Ieyasu



Western Connections


What's in a name? Padre Joao Rodriguez's discussion of naming practices in his Short grammar of the Japanese language



The Dufu Haruma: An explosive dictionary



The Kurisaki school of sword wound surgery: From Sengoku to Genroku; Nagasaki to Edo (via Manila)



List of publications



List of contributors


Index